Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1920 — Insect Life In Winter. [ARTICLE]

Insect Life In Winter.

In the dead wood of the old snags are many insects that live through the winter regardless of how cold it gets; creatures whose weak bodies seem to defy the frigid temperature. Pull oft a bit of old bark from a snag and note that thereis life beneath it; Uttle people that try to scurry for cover when their home is wrecked. ‘ They are not so agile as when the weather is warm, blit they ar* not in a state of torpor. The fish do hot hibernate during the winter. Some species find homes in holes or beneath rocks and roots and get along very well without food during the cold weather, but they are not torpid like the beats and groundhogs ♦hut hibernate: Most of the fish swim about in the cold water and gather a living in winter just as they do in summer, but none of them require so much food when the water Is cold.